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Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Gwen writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a pink Twinkle Bike. But when Gwen's bike accidentally gets left behind at the North Pole, it's up to Santa's son Arthur to get the bike to Gwen and save Christmas!
102) Scan
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Tate Archer outruns armed government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention out of the wrong hands, alien hands"--
104) Bedtime blast-off!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A young boy and his father use their imaginations before bedtime to transform an ordinary laundry basket into a variety of transportation vehicles"--
105) The better tree fort
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When his dad builds him a tree fort, Russell thinks it is perfect--right up until he notices another tree fort going up three houses over.
108) Mitchell's license
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mitchell never wants to go to bed until, at the age of three years, nine months, and five days he gets his license so that he can drive there--at least until he and the car have a disagreement about what fuel goes in the tank.
109) A beach tail
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail--and a trail to follow back.
110) American ace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
111) Ride the wind
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from his mother's death and against his father's wishes, Javier secretly rescues and cares for an albatross who needs to find her way home, in this beautiful story of a father and a son, of grief and reconnection.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna.
116) Out of the blue
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a world where only the color blue is allowed, a young boy and his father dare to defy the rules and create a place where every hue is welcome.
117) Superhero dad
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, and imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dad might not have a superhero mask or wear his pants outside his trousers, but his super snores can be heard a thousand miles away, he tells super jokes and can even make super-scary monsters go away at bedtime.
119) Buck fever
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Joey and his fifteen-year-old sister Philly relate their experiences trying to cope in a family already strained by the mother's extended travel, and pushed further apart by the father's disappointment that Joey is more interested in drawing deer than hunting them.
120) Lord of the mountain
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Nate Owens, thirteen, sets out from Bristol, Tennessee, against the wishes of his father, a self-proclaimed preacher, to find himself and the song he thinks will heal his broken family.